The Mahoney Family Fund is honored to present one of the nation’s most respected experts on the prevention of child abuse, Stacie LeBlanc. Her research and evidence-based data about the harms of hitting children, for punishment, is real and overwhelming. This interactive webinar will address:

• The need and critical importance for ending spanking and other forms of physical punishment. 

• Interventions and strategies that can be implemented to reduce the use of physical punishment. Examples of successful strategies include “No Hit Zones”.

Stacie LeBlanc, JD, MEd is the president of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the co-founder of The UP Institute and a CAST instructor at Tulane University.  She founded the Audrey Hepburn (CARE) Center and is the former Executive Director of the New Orleans Children's Advocacy Center. Stacie served ten years as a felony child abuse prosecutor, has designed multiple prevention programs including Teens, Sex, and the Law; Dear Parents      and Painless Parenting.      She chairs the National No Hit Zone Committee. More about Atty. LeBlanc: CV, NoHitZones